Rally - Banners Over I-5 June 26, 2026

Friday June 26, 2026 - Vancouver, WA - Banners Over I-5 Resistance Rally on the Evergreen Blvd bridge over the I-5 Freeway. Wake up America! If you’re not outraged with what’s happening in America, you’re not paying attention! 

SOUND ON🎧

CLICK HERE ☝

Book Review - A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

Title: A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

Author: Andrew H. Knoll
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍

My Review: I like science and I really appreciate books like this that distill information and make science more accessible. This book definately does that. However, it did feel a bit like a firehose of information. My favorite chapter was the last one that discussed the impacts humans are having on the planet. Needless to say, humans are not good stewards and our time on earth may end up being less than a blink of the eye.  

Description (Audible): Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above.

The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going.

Book Review - Of Mice and Men

Title: Of Mice and Men
Author: John Steinbeck
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍
My Review: I've been trying to broaden my horizons and read more classic books. I'd heard alot about this book but I never realized it was based on a famous quote from the 1785 Scottish poem "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns 

"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley." 

Apparently Burns wrote the poem after accidentally plowing over a mouse's winter burrow. He then lamented that both mice and humans suffer from the same unpredictability of life, and no matter how carefully we prepare, unforeseen circumstances, bad luck, or human nature can ruin those preparations. That, in a nutshell, summarizes his book.  It's a tragic story of two men who have dreams of living a life of ease but unfortunately, life has other plans. I really liked this book and am looking forward to reading more classics.  

Description (Audible): From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, this classic story of an unlikely pair, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression who grasp for their American Dream, profoundly touches readers and audiences alike. George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own—a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come to work on a ranch in the fertile Salinas Valley of California, their hopes, like “the best laid schemes o’mice an’ men,” begin to go awry.

Happy Summer Solstice!

Happy Summer Solstice!

🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞

Summertime is here •

A relaxing time of year •

Laying by the pool •

Trying to look cool •

Think I’ll have a beer

CHEERS! 🍺

Rally - Banners Over I-5 June 19, 2026

Friday June 19, 2026 - Vancouver, WA - Banners Over I-5 Resistance Rally & Celebration of Juneteenth on the Evergreen Blvd bridge over the I-5 Freeway. Happy Freedom Day! Wake up America! If you’re not outraged with what’s happening in America, you’re not paying attention!

SOUND ON🎧

CLICK HERE ☝

Book Review - Animal Farm

Title: Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍

My Review: According to the Internet, Animal Farm "is widely considered a literary classic and one of the most influential political satires of the 20th century".  The book was first published in 1945 and uses a fictional farm setting to critique totalitarianism and the corruption of power. The story starts somewhat innocently with disgruntled farm animals taking over a farm. They then setup a somewhat egalitarian system where each animal is considered equal. Things evolve and through various means of deception, the pigs take over and the farm ends up becoming a dictatorship much like when the humans were in control. I enjoyed this book but found it to be frightenly similar to what is happening in America now.  This book should be required reading for all ages. 

Description (Audible): George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words. It is an account of the bold struggle that transforms Mr. Jones' Manor Farm into Animal Farm, a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that bears an insidious familiarity. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is re-established with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.

Book Review - The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Title: The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Author: Timothy Egan
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍👍
My Review: Timothy Egan is one of my favorite authors. I've read several of his books and they're all great. This book is one of his best. It tells the tragic story of the 1930s dust bowl and the people who lived through it. This book is especially prescient and shows how easy it is for humans to destroy our environment and how we need to be more aware of how our actions affect the planet. I loved this book. 

Description (Audible): In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature.

KU Common Books - Timothy Egan speaks at The University of Kansas about his book "The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl"  (1:14:00)

Oklahoma Horizon TV - Timothy Egan discusses his book and the sense of urgency behind capturing these stories before they are lost to history (6:40)

Rally - Banners Over I5 June 12, 2026

Friday June 12, 2026 - Vancouver, WA - Weekly Banners Over I-5 Resistance Rally on the Evergreen Blvd bridge over the I-5 Freeway. Wake up America! If you’re not outraged with what’s happening in America, you’re not paying attention!

SOUND ON🎧

Rally - D-Day / Democracy Day Bannering June 6, 2026

June 6, 2026 - D-Day / Democracy Day Rally on the Evergreen Blvd bridge overlooking I-5 Freeway. In commemoration of the 82nd Anniversary of D-Day, Indivisible & Visibility Brigade hosted D-Day / Democracy Day - A nationwide day of overpass actions against fascist billionaires, corporate greed, and forces threatening our democracy.

SOUND ON🎧

Click Here ☝

Rally - Banners Over I-5 June 5, 2026

Friday June 5, 2026 - Banners Over I-5 Resistance Rally on the Evergreen Blvd bridge overlooking I-5 Freeway. Wake up America! If you’re not outraged with what’s happening in America, you’re not paying attention.

SOUND ON🎧

Click Here ☝